Promoting ChooseESC in Crete

From 27-31 October 2008, the ChooseESC! campaign participated in a road safety exhibition held in the famous venetian harbour of Chania Harbour (Crete). The exhibition was part of the International Road Safety Symposium "Making Roads Safe...Towards Zero Fatalities on the Road" which took place in Chania on 29 October 2008. Locals and tourists from all over the world visited the ChooseESC info stand and took the opportunity to hear first hand about the safety benefits of ESC.

The Road Safety Symposium gathered high-level speakers such as Kostas Hatzidakis, Minister of Transport & Communications, Hellenic Republic, and was attended by international experts on best practice in road traffic injury prevention. It coincided with the annual meetings of the International and European Road Assessment Programmes (iRAP & EuroRAP). A major feature of the Symposium was the recently released OECD/International Transport Forum report "Towards Zero - Achieving Ambitious Road Safety Targets". The meeting also examined European road safety policies and targets to achieve a 50% reduction in fatalities as adopted by the European Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. It also provided an opportunity to provide input into the first ever UN Ministerial Conference on global road safety due to be held in Moscow in November 2009. A special session was devoted to developments in Eastern and Central Europe.